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SUBMITTER: Borgerhoff Mulder M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6664137 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borgerhoff Mulder Monique M Towner Mary C MC Baldini Ryan R Beheim Bret A BA Bowles Samuel S Colleran Heidi H Gurven Michael M Kramer Karen L KL Mattison Siobhán M SM Nolin David A DA Scelza Brooke A BA Schniter Eric E Sear Rebecca R Shenk Mary K MK Voland Eckart E Ziker John J
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20190715 1780
Persistent interest lies in gender inequality, especially with regard to the favouring of sons over daughters. Economists are concerned with how privilege is transmitted across generations, and anthropologists have long studied sex-biased inheritance norms. There has, however, been no focused cross-cultural investigation of how parent-offspring correlations in wealth vary by offspring sex. We estimate these correlations for 38 wealth measures, including somatic and relational wealth, from 15 pop ...[more]